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interfere

[in-ter-feer] / ˌɪn tərˈfɪər /


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SpaceX in January secured a separate FCC waiver aimed at ensuring satellites stationed closer to Earth wouldn’t interfere with those operating much farther away.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court the project is already 65% complete and argued that stopping construction would interfere with security improvements at the White House.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

It added that the technology does not interfere at all with heart activity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The CPS has said the brothers are a "flight-risk", and would attempt to interfere with the witnesses in the case, according to court filings.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

If you drop two stones at the same time, the ripples interfere with one another.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

And both have their reasons for rejecting science that interferes with their own interests.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

If investors conclude for themselves that having a high concentration of individual stocks interferes with their goals, they might forgo this approach.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

If the weather interferes with your chances of seeing the Strawberry Moon tonight, do not worry as there are more opportunities to see full Moons this summer.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

If the key damage occurs when a-beta interferes with tau inside neurons, those external plaques may not directly disrupt tau or the microtubules it supports.

From Science Daily Jun. 19, 2026

If, however, something destroys this enzyme or interferes with its action, the person exposed to malathion receives the full force of the poison.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

But the new plan, issued in 2021, favored the ranchers, extending them 20-year leases, and allowed for the killing of elk if they interfered with cattle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Those green ecosystems are far different from California’s; our neighbor’s fires generally arise in massive boreal forests, which do not have debris or brush concerns because they’ve never been logged or otherwise interfered with.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

A median of 75% felt that the US interfered in the affairs of other countries a great deal or a fair amount, while 45% said the same of China.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Those studies similarly found that disrupting sensory regions of the brain interfered with the ability to learn and retain new motor skills.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

They hadn’t fought or interfered, but they helped Maddie up and dusted her off, and the workman ran loving hands down the Silent Superb’s fender.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The veteran manager said that his former boss became increasingly interfering during his first spell at the club, including pushing for the signing of Andriy Shevchenko.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Such a strategy might block harmful fibrotic signaling without broadly interfering with serotonin's many essential functions elsewhere in the body.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

This past weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” featured a segment from national security correspondent David Martin about the Department of Defense interfering with the editorial independence of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

In a novel full of insufferable characters interfering with romantic soulmates, Mary commits the sins of both pedantry and priggishness.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

The children’s little dog came out, interfering, getting in her way.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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